From an entertainment perspective, playing Brooklyn might be a lot of fun. Watching the reffing would be frustrating, I suspect, but it would be great for development.

Really, there are pluses to any scenario, aside from playing the Bobkittens. That just has "no thanks" written all over it....weird mathcup, poor coverage/media attention, not the greatest playoff experience for our developing players...etc...

From an entertainment perspective, playing Brooklyn might be a lot of fun. Watching the reffing would be frustrating, I suspect, but it would be great for development.

Really, there are pluses to any scenario, aside from playing the Bobkittens. That just has "no thanks" written all over it....weird mathcup, poor coverage/media attention, not the greatest playoff experience for our developing players...etc...

If KG is not healthy, it may be entertainment. If he is, not sure you will enjoy us scoring 80 points every game on brick after brick.

It amazes me how people discount somebody of KG's calibre - yes, he's old and goes through the motions most of the time. In the playoffs though? You'd better watch out. He's the same age as Duncan and BKN without KG has been more or less as good as us. Now imagine adding Duncan to that team - that's what KG will bring in the playoffs.

If KG is not healthy, it may be entertainment. If he is, not sure you will enjoy us scoring 80 points every game on brick after brick.

It amazes me how people discount somebody of KG's calibre - yes, he's old and goes through the motions most of the time. In the playoffs though? You'd better watch out. He's the same age as Duncan and BKN without KG has been more or less as good as us. Now imagine adding Duncan to that team - that's what KG will bring in the playoffs.

KG is NOT as good as Duncan, and hasn't been for more than a year. He's the same age but came into the league as a teenager. He's got a shitload of mileage on those legs, with extra minutes, and not getting the rest that Pop gives Duncan lately.

But, you do have a point about him POTENTIALLY having a defensive impact on the game. It's still a good learning experience. And I still think it will be competitive ball. That is entertaining.

Yeah Duncan maintained his level of play last season, whereas KG was injury prone and his game fell off a bit. He's still a beast in the playoffs though, everyone thought he was done vs NYK and he was putting up double doubles with 15+ boards every game. BRK is still a horrible matchup for us IMO.

Brooklyn could be worst matchup short term, but best longterm if the team is kept together because of the intensity/experience. And if we did somehow manage to win, that would be a great short term confidence boost. High risk/reward.

You non-tankers are ruining the future of this franchise. I hope you feel good about yourselves. :cookie:

Edit: to be clear - I'm not a tanker. At the start of the season I was dreading a season of losing and endless draft pick threads. I was poking fun at some of the super rigid tanking attitudes I read in some threads this year i.e.: "there's only one way to build a team and if you aren't a tanker then you are dooming the franchise to a decade of mediocrity"

KG is NOT as good as Duncan, and hasn't been for more than a year. He's the same age but came into the league as a teenager. He's got a shitload of mileage on those legs, with extra minutes, and not getting the rest that Pop gives Duncan lately.

But, you do have a point about him POTENTIALLY having a defensive impact on the game. It's still a good learning experience. And I still think it will be competitive ball. That is entertaining.

I'm aware that KG has way more miles, but not sure it will make a huge difference in the playoffs. There's a reason TD can still go a full regular season and KG can't, but for 10-12 games in the playoffs? Not sure the difference is huge, especially so on the defensive end. They don't need KG to score, although he will punish you if you don't guard him. Maybe not in the post anymore, but from mid-range he's still deadly.

My biggest concern is his defense though. It's not enough they have livingstone, PP and JJ to hound our guys on the perimeter, but with KG behind them, how exactly are we going to score? It will be UGLY, unless we can get some monster games from JV.

The other thing KG does is completely destroys your P&R with Amir, which is one of our strongest weapons.

And their bench is super strong too, definitely better than ours.

That's why I've wanted us to avoid BKN like the plague - the playoff games against them will be nothing like the regular season games, and those were not great either (don't forget each game we played them they were on a B2B - amazingly enough).

I would consider even a strong effort against them as a MAJOR accomplishment for our team.